Making medicines, dyes, glue, fertilizer, pesticides and paint from plant and animal products requires an intimate understanding of biology, chemistry and the ways things interact. What you may think of as a traditional practice - such as growing corn, squash and beans together - is actually a form of biosystems engineering.

Aptitude:

If you like...

Being creative

Problem solving

Inventing new things

Working with plants and animals

Biology

Helping the environment

Helping others

...then perhaps you would like Biological and Biosystems Engineering.

Universities:

If you want to study Biological and Biosystems Engineering, then you could go to the following universities:

Biological and Biosytems Engineers work with technology from different places and combine them with engineering design.

Examples

Biological and Biosystems engineers work with things like structures, machinery, energy, labor, land, water, and waste. These engineers give us products that are efficient and easy for us to use in our everyday lives. Biological and biosystems engineers:

Create new medicines like insulin, which is used to help people who have Diabetes to stay healthy

Study ways to make grass, woodchips and garbage into gas for cars

In your community

In order to make medicines, dyes, glue, fertilizer, pesticides and paint from plants and animals you must understand the way in which these things act with each other.

If you like...

Being creative

Problem solving

Inventing new things

Working with plants and animals

Biology

Helping the environment

Helping others

...then maybe you would like Biological and Biosystems Engineering!

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